Hotel Quelle in South Tyrol Launches New Active Weeks For 2020 – Choose Your Challenge is Back!

26.02.2020 ,Mandy Gore-Booth

Hotel Quelle Nature Spa launches a new series of Active Weeks. E-bike tours, hiking races, summit challenges, mountain top yoga and fitness training sessions are all included in the price of the stay.

Back by popular demand from guests, Hotel Quelle, the award-winning, five-star ‘Nature Spa’ resort in South Tyrol, Italy, has introduced further Active Weeks for 2020 to their inclusive programme. Open to all, and included in the price, the Active Weeks encourage guests to get out into nature more, and will showcase Hotel Quelle’s fantastic mountain location, their expert guides, their recuperative spa & sauna facilities and their revitalizing gourmet food.

Hotel Quelle’s location in Val Casies in the Dolomite mountain range makes it an ideal starting point from which to undertake a series of on-mountain challenges. Hotel Quelle offers a wide variety of activities for all seasons, from alpine runs, e-bike tours, hiking races, to mountain top yoga and fitness training sessions.

Prices start from €1060 per person based on two sharing for 7 nights on a full-board basis.

Active Weeks include:

Special Bike & Hike Weeks

14 – 21 June 2020 and 25 – 31 October 2020

Explore a hiker and biker paradise together with fitness instructors. Guests can participate in a series of Bike & Hike Tours exploring beautiful local, and lesser-known trails, using a combination of mountain bikes and e-bikes along with hiking. Over the course of a week, guests will undertake four challenging and breath-taking routes including:

• Bike & Hike Tour: MTB-Bike to Taisten & Hike along Kneippweg
• Border experience: E-bike to “Oberbergalm” & Hike to “Gsiesetörl”
• On the hidden trail: E-bike to “Tscharnietalm” & Hike to “Kalksteinjöchl”
• Surprise sunrise excursion

Professional mountain bikes and the latest electric bikes are available from the hotel.

If that is not enough – Hotel Quelle also offers Spinning lessons and Spinning & Body Workout sessions in our Gym!

Special Alpine Run Week

30 August – 06 September 2020

Train for participation in popular Gsieser Alpine Run! Taking place on 5th September, this challenging run covers 12.4 km and a climb of 1070 vertical metres! Become a member of the Hotel Quelle race team and you will:

• Train with fitness trainers
• Participate in a Route inspection prior to The Run
• Join stretching sessions in the gym and take advantage of relaxation opportunities in the sauna

Registration fee and race food are included.

Summit Stormers

13 – 20 September 2020

Perfect for serious walkers, and a favourite of the Hotel Quelle team, participants summit more than 4,000 vertical meters of pure joy (well mostly!). The week includes:

• The Dolomites: Tour 1: The famous Three Peaks. (UNESCO World Heritage) – Tour 2: “Rammelstein”
• The Big Summit Tour of Gsies
• The Big Three Summit Tour
• A sunrise hike to the “Lutterkopf”

Mountain-Active & Yoga Week

11 – 18 October 2020

Combining Active Mountain Experiences with Yoga is becoming increasingly popular.Join this week and explore the diversity of the Gsieser Mountains with a series of sunrise hikes, summit experiences and twilight walks, all celebrated with a yoga session after each activity.

Active Weeks Outdoor and Indoor  – Fitness & Energy in Autumn

1 – 22 November 2020

Get Fit & Active from morning to night! Open to all levels of fitness, this series of indoor and outdoor activities includes:

• Energizing mornings walks and sun salutations to welcome the day
• Twilight walks and lunar greetings to celebrate the night
• Fitness sessions in between: from Functional Training, Tabata Interval Training, Special Circuit Training, Abdominal & Back Training and Spinning to Pilates, Yoga, Stretching, Acqua Gym and more.

 

Also, all guests will be able to also take advantage of over 5000m² of wellness, relaxation and beauty space. For example, Hotel Quelle has 10 sauna and steam rooms, including a Snow Sauna– a unique ice lounge designed to relieve sore muscles and tension, particularly effective after a hot sauna.  There is also a warming salt-water grotto, seven pools – two of which extend from the indoors to the outdoors, while the new Wellness Garden, to be unveiled this Summer, features a Biological Bathing Pond, outdoor Kneipp and barefoot walking path, new outdoor sauna and waterfall.

All stays at Hotel Quelle are punctuated by fabulous meals: from an extensive breakfast with healthy and organic choices including freshly pressed fruit and vegetable juices, organic bread, farmer’s corner and cooked breakfasts from the show kitchen; a daily traditional South Tyrolean or Italian lunch; and a beautifully prepared à-la-carte menu offering 5 -7 courses for dinner, celebrating the best of Tyrolean and Italian cuisine.

Deriving its name from the German word for ‘Source’, Hotel Quelle is situated at an altitude of 1400m near the town of Bruneck in the province of Bolzano.  The nearest airports are Innsbruck (119km) and Venice (250km) – a two and three hours’ drive respectively. By train, the nearest station is Welsberg station via Franzensfeste/Fortezza.

Reservations: www.hotel-quelle.com; tel: +39 0474 948111